Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
Quote Originally Posted by desslock View Post
There are still enough good affiliates and good publishers to go around.
I disagree and, so do many other program owners, ones who have been around 10+ years are now starting to generate their own in-house traffic because the quality of affiliates has dropped well below the bar.
I don't why you insist on stating this as a fact because it's completely untrue. Desslock is right. There are plenty of good affiliates around. I value all of our affiliates and certainly don't consider them an incovenience at all.

I know you're thinking "What does this guy know? He's only had his own paysite for a few months." That is true. I don't know what affiliates were like 10 years ago. But I do know that the business was a lot easier for everyone back then. So it's definitely not fair to compare 1997 with 2007.

However, I have been (and still am) an affiliate in a few affiliate programs for the past 6 years. I'm not the biggest and baddest affiliate either. No one is going to confuse me with a 'Big Fish'. But I've made myself and a few good affiliate programs several hundred thousand dollars in that time. And I'm quite certain not a single program administrator that I deal with will think I am a pain-in-the-ass and would refuse my contribution..

Btw, your constant bad-mouthing is very counter-productive. I'm not an active affiliate of your program. But if I was, I'm sure your negativity would cause me to think that you considered me worthless.

Go ahead... I dare you to close your affiliate program like Corbin Fisher. I bet in 2 months you will be announcing the 'GRAND RE-OPENING' of the CondomCash affiliate program.